Sea turtle nesting season begins May 1, and many will lumber onto local beaches, dig giant holes and deposit thousands of ...

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth, growing up to seven feet long and exceeding 2,000 pounds. These reptilian relics are the only remaining representatives of a family of turtles that ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation reported that a leatherback nest was found on Sanibel on April 24, marking the ...

Now, NOAA Fisheries researchers have discovered that these leatherbacks travel via locations like Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and Delaware Bay, where they feed, according to a new study in the ...

Bleakney recognized it as a leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles. Leatherbacks, he recalled, were supposed to be creatures of the tropics, as out of place in chilly, gray Canadian waters as ...

Sea turtle nesting season has officially begun in South Carolina. According to the South Carolina Department of Natural ...

The deadline is May 24 to submit comments to the Wildlife Resources Commission about the proposed sea turtle conservation ...

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Possibly the cutest baby animals in the world, sea turtles capture the hearts of people from the second they are born.

The first sea turtle nest of the season, laid by the largest sea turtle species on Earth, was found Wednesday on Sanibel.

One hypothesis was just starting to be floated in those days: that to aid their long-distance migrations leatherbacks and other sea turtles appear to use the Earth's magnetic field (see Figure 1).